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The Treatment

Eric Idle

Hosted by Elvis Mitchell Mar. 23, 2005
Elvis Mitchell talks to multi-talented and busy Eric Idle about his new book The Greedy Bastard Diary: A Comic Tour of America, his new film on DVD, the mockumentary The Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch, and his new musical Spamalot! which just opened on Broadway.
Elvis Mitchell talks to multi-talented and busy Eric Idle about his new book The Greedy Bastard Diary: A Comic Tour of America, his new film on DVD, the mockumentary The Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch, and his new musical Spamalot! which just opened on Broadway.

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